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    <p>You are new to Perl 6? The other pages on this site offer too many
    options and confuse you? Then here is the right place to read on.</p>

    <p>Here you can find a selection that should be suitable for beginners.
    When you are a bit familiar with the language, come back to perl6.org and
    look at other resources too.</p>
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        <h3 class="trim-top">The Main Track</h3>
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            <li><strong>Install a compiler</strong> — follow <a
                href="/downloads/">these instructions</a>
                to build and install Rakudo Star, a Perl 6 distribution
                with a number of useful modules included.</li>
            <li><strong>Read about Perl 6</strong> — explore the
                <a href="/resources/">documentation</a>
                to start learning Perl 6.</li>
            <li><strong>Find available modules</strong> — use the <tt>panda</tt>
              installer (comes with Rakudo Star) to install modules listed at the
            <a href="https://modules.perl6.org/">Perl6 modules directory</a>.</li>
            <li><strong>Write a program in Perl 6</strong></li>
            <li><strong>Write another program in Perl 6</strong> ☺</li>
            <li><a href="/getting-started/involved">Get involved!</a></li>
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        <h3 class="trim-top">The Side Track</h3>
        <p>Parallel to the main track, you can read examples or talk to the
        community, and ask when you have questions or get stuck.</p>
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            <li>Read <a href="http://examples.perl6.org/">example Perl 6
                code</a>.</li>
            <li>Get in touch with <a href="/community/">the community</a> for
                questions, suggestions, and inspiration.</li>
            <li>Found a bug in Rakudo? Send a bug report to <a
                href="mailto:rakudobug@perl.org">rakudobug@perl.org</a>. <a
                href="https://rt.perl.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=perl6">rt.perl.org</a>
                has a list of already known bugs.</li>
            <li>Read <a href="http://pl6anet.org/">Perl 6 blogs</a>.</li>
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